Part of the Global Plot to Expose Moonbats, conspiracy nuts, and anti-Semites, especially the Jewish anti-Semitic variety.
The leftwing Neo-Nazi web magazine Counterpunch has described Plaut thus: "One of the most pernicious writers is Steven Plaut, a man who could be thought of as Israel's Daniel Pipes."

Thursday, April 21, 2011

The World's best Illustration of Leftwing Academic Fascism

Claims we are "collaborating with the government to stifle academicfreedom." This from the fellow who organizes conferences in which nonon-leftist and no Zionist may speak! When asked why that is, Gordonresponds: "The whole notion of 'balanced' is now being used as aweapon against the left. If there's a conference on Darwin we do notneed to invite creationists. For a Holocaust conference we should notbe inviting Holocaust deniers – although one could claim that in thename of balance we would have to. Why, one might ask, should we invitepeople who are against human rights?" In other words, all ZIonistsand non-leftists are opposed to human rights."

Actually, Little Neve's comments about Holocaust Deniers areinteresting, given his long track record of collabroation with andcelebration of Holocaust Deniers.

Another Excerpt from Interview:

Gordon says:"There's an assault on Israeli academia in general. It involves analliance between forces such as IsraCampus and Israel Academic Monitoron the one hand, who try to convince donors to stop giving money touniversities that harbor leftists, and Im Tirzu, which tries tomobilize government Ministers and Members of Knesset to pressure thetop university executives to discipline recalcitrant academics.There's an alliance between elements in civil society, a handful ofdonors, and the government to stifle academic freedom and criticism ofIsraeli policy. The phenomenon is not only in the academic sphere…italso includes, for example, the attacks on the human rightsorganizations in Israel."As I understand it, the assault has a twofold objective. The idea isto prevent the flow of information from Israel abroad, and becauseboth academics and the Israeli human rights community have strongnetworks outside of Israel they are the one's currently targeted.Simultaneously, there is an attempt to stifle internal debate, byreducing the limiting discussions about policies that lead to socialwrongs and more violence and aggression...."We are seeing a totally new phenomenon in Israeli academia: studentssitting in class, filming the classes and then passing information onto the monitor groups and the media. The recordings are almost alwaysedited, so the information doesn't reflect what really went on inclass. Such students consider themselves to be class monitors ,rather than people who have come to the university in order to study,broaden their horizon and expand their knowledge…not unlike theMcCarthy era in the US, some Israeli student see themselves as agentsof the state, as spies."

The interviewer Dahlia Scheindlin is herself a leftwing anti-Zionistwho teaches politics at BGU, who was hired and is employed by NeveGordon's department(her web site is censoring out talkbacks from non-leftists)